Patterns of brain activity supporting autobiographical memory, prospection, and theory of mind, and their relationship to the default mode network

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1112-1123

  Spreng, R Nathan ^a   Grady, Cheryl L ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 77952083280     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21282     Document Type: Article

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